26 Nov 1936
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1936
Page
1
A Marengo man Fred Imhoff jailed twenty days after wedding for beating his wife. The column notes the couple wed twenty days earlier and cites the charges leading to detention.
Audubon’s Carl Carlson, national cornhusking champion, wears a watch presented by the community club to honor his recent victory and celebrate the shared support from friends.
Des Moines reports a raid on the Link Cigar Store leads to eighteen men released on bond awaiting hearings. Fifteen men held on gambling charges, two on counts as managers. Proprietors Sam Levine and Alfred Weldon released on $1000 bond each for operating a gambling house.
Arnold Park Shirley Wiese, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiese, proudly exhibited violets in school. The flowers were picked from her own garden and have bloomed since August rains despite several hard freezes.
On a farm near Hera greyhounds owned by Atlantic resident William Petersons killed a large coyote. Nearby Raymond Arn of Atlantic with his dogs captured a two and a half pound coyote near Anita.
Ruth Suckow widow of Fern Nuhn and noted author will join the Roosevelt administration in a committee to study the farm tenancy situation. The appointment signals literary figures stepping into policy analysis on rural affairs.
Des Moines reports that L. S. Hill planned to discharge George J. Keller of Iowa City as advisory WPA assistant days before Keller was appointed full administrator. The plan was disclosed at WPA headquarters and confirmed by Hill, the resigned administrator.
Four year old daughter of Dr G B McParland of Ames suffered severe burns to arms legs and face when she ran into a maid carrying a pan of hot grease. The girl received first aid from her father and was admitted to Mary Greeley hospital.
Rev. D Chalmers Fulton delivers a union Thanksgiving sermon at the Methodist church urging gratitude as essential virtue. He warns wealth chasing caused depressions and stresses inner peace, humility, and compassion with scriptural exhortations from Colossians and Luke as the community gathers for a citywide service.
Alan Kline vice president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation will speak at the Washington county Farm Bureau annual meeting in the Methodist church social hall on Saturday afternoon November 28. A picnic lunch at noon precedes programs including reports, elections, 4-H talks, and music. The event ends with an address and announcements.
Remodeling is completed at the Peters hardware store with a newly updated women's section on the east side. The store claims to offer one of the most modern women's departments in the trading area.
In Marshalltown a clerk poured kerosene on live coals in the Dillon general store at Lisecomb starting a blaze that spread to two adjoining buildings and for a time threatened the business district.
The text urges inner happiness and peace as lasting traits. It cites John Oxenham on thanking God amid life’s roar and harvests. It emphasizes sharing God’s gifts with others and notes Jesus healing ten lepers, only one thanking him. It calls for gratitude in all things and peace in the heart.
London and Paris react with disfavor to the German Japanese pact while Stalin orders a rapid mobilization in Russia. Tokyo plans protests over ten Japanese deaths in Siberia as a Spanish rebel trawler fires on a Russian merchant ship. Americans flee Madrid as bombardment renews and a Valencia convoy carries 59 Americans toward safety.
Albert Cornwell 38 junk dealer from Manchester was found guilty of murdering Dan Shine 60 with a beer bottle. Jury recommended life imprisonment after ten hours of deliberation. Pearl Hines Shine 49 received life. Maynard Lennox 19 got forty years.
In Whittemore a double ceremony united Rosella Muller with Edward Frideres and her sister Viola with Edwin Frideres' brother Norbert. A large group of uncles and aunts witnessed the vows.
Marriage licenses were issued to Robert Gerot and Zelda Frank of Riverside, J. L. Robert son of Keota and Blanch Greeian of Washington, Sherman R. Gault of Washington and Emmy Lauber of Washington, Gordon Miller of Kalona and Rozetta Ropp of Kalona.
Funeral services for Mrs Nancy Jane Burham were held Tuesday at L A Jones funeral home conducted by Dr Arthur Atack with pallbearers John Custer Wade Welch Floyd Roe and William Klein. Burial was in Woodlawn cemetery.
More than 140 000 Iowa individuals and corporations paid 3 645 150 in state income taxes on 1935 earnings, a 29 percent increase. The tax board cited collection efficiency and better conditions, noting urban taxpayers bore the majority of the burden with 126 409 urban returns paying 2 882 516 compared with rural 292 282 from 12 301 taxpayers.
Paul L Gorham former Journal staffer and Rhodes Newspapers executive moves to Springfield Illinois to lead markets and national advertising promotion for over forty Illinois dailies. He relocates from Newton Iowa with his family amid a year long tenure as Rhodes national advertising manager.
Miss Amanda Schulty entertained guests at a Sunday dinner at her home. Attending were Mr and Mrs Bud Borman, Mr and Mrs Phil Wanerus, and Mr and Mrs Roy Schulty.
The article notes a table owned by Misa Rose J. Kohontek of Riverside built from 6750 wood pieces in a 36 inch square tile. Twenty two woods were used and a seven week construction by carpenter John Womachil. The walnut border is inlaid with oak and the maker provided full composition data.
Mrs. Dale Spielman of Fairfield is in Washington County Hospital with non serious injuries from a 9 AM automobile collision on primary road 161 a mile north of the 161 and 2 junction east of Ainsworth near Lloyd Jones home. Slippery snow slicked road contributed. Vehicle driven by Charles Levin Cedar Rapids with H K Shinbloom passenger. Dale Spielman driver with wife R C Spielman and sons Harvey and Jack of Brighton. Lloyd Prizer of Brighton also in the crash.
Mrs Blanche Cartwright of Cedar Rapids spent yesterday in town attending to matters related to her beauty shop.
The city announces a formal Christmas opening in Washington on November 28 with snow in the air and stores finishing touches. Decorations, trees, carols, church bells and pipe organ music will fill the day as Washington unveils new features each Saturday. Children are invited to view toys, dolls and miniature floats while Santa Claus visits for several days with candy.
Washington residents awoke to steadily falling snow covering the ground about an inch deep by daylight. The weather was not especially cold and there was no wind as the light snow continued to fall at nine o clock, signaling an early winter.
Hollywood report says actor Ian Keith, wielding a razor, cut his wrists and bled in a disheveled apartment after a despondent moment before Thanksgiving. Mrs. Keith claims a prior car crash left him unable to enjoy sports he loves and spurred the act.
Nine veterans attended a Sunday school teachers convention at the First Baptist church in Mt. Pleasant last Friday. Attendees included Rev. and Mrs A H Boetteher, Mrs Laurence Shaffer, Mrs J A Huston, Mrs Frank Boshart, Miss Ruth Korf, Mr and Mrs Bert Spangler, and Mrs Chas Faulkner.
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